Luckily, there is no cancer in my family, or at least not yet.

I lost Mom in 1997 to breast cancer.

First inkling we had was when her side started hurting; it was already in her liver.

Chemo only pissed it off. She went from perfectly healthy to dead in less than 3 months.

She had had a clean mamogram less than three months before her pain started.

I miss her.............. DEARLY.

I lost my husband to cancer 11 years ago this month.  He lived 4 months after being diagnosed.

I've also had several uncles that died from various types of cancers.

I have an aunt who has been fighting cancer for the past 5 years.  She has had several surgeries and undergone chemo and radiation many times.

Quoted: My Mother died in my arms on September 7, 1992, after a five-year struggle with cancer. When the end came, she was very glad to go. She asked me on the very last morning of her life, 'Am I going to die today?' And I replied, 'Tonight, Mom, you will be with Jesus.' At 8:30 that evening, she was. My uncle also died of cancer. A very fine man who was 'Regular' Navy before WWII. He signed up at 16, and was in San Diego on December 7, 1941. Spent the entire war as a SeaBee in the South Pacific. And his death was just as sweet as my Mother's. He died at home with my Aunt holding his hand. Whew! It's hard to type when 'your eyes are raining', as my little Granddaughter always calls it. Eric The(IShallSeeThemBothSomeBrightAndShiningDayWithoutEnd)Hun

I'm not a what you would consider a sensitive guy at all, but after reading the first 5 lines of this i got goosebumps. I am sorry for your loss, and for everyone else's too. I know how it feels.

Grand Mother was the finest lady I will ever know.

MT

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The list just doesn't seem to stop. I am so sorry for your losses
If I missed anyone I am sorry, it is not on purpose.

Mom died 9 years ago from breast cancer. I was 20 and very pissed off.

I picked up a book on Natural Medicine and it seems to place alot of the blame on so much cancer on toxins in our enviroment. I tend to agree. Our water, air and food all have stuff in them that wasn't there 100 years ago. Toxins effect the cells of the body making them mutate into cancer cells. If a person were to drink purified water and eat a more healthy diet I'd be willing to bet cancer would decrease in our society.  FOX News even had a segment on how being over weight contributes to cancer. If my birth mom wouldn't have had cancer I'd have been able to grow up with my brothers and sisters instead of being adopted out and being raised an only child. I wish my adopted parents would have at least let me know about my birth father, brothers and sisters when I was in my teens, that way I could have spent more time with them.  My brother that was a year older then me got adopted out as well, I still need to get in touch with him and my brother Guy, who was two years older was killed in a car accident in '83 so I never got to meet him, my younger brother Mike says I'm alot like him. Who knows, if I'd have known him back then we might have done something different that night and he might still be alive today. The way it is I've only known my birth family for almost 2 years(it'll be 2 years Thanksgiving day) and my brothers and sisters have already bonded like I'd grown up with them all along. I really love my birth family, we've got alot of time to make up for.  I'm just glad that I've at least found them.  In a round about way cancer has messed up my life big time.